The artist has given the entirety of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the UK's grassroots live music spots.
The star was given the award on October 16 as his new release People Watching was declared the top album of the last 12 months.
Fender has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the area, and further afield, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these locations have ceased operations – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted venues that were dealing with potential shutdown due to issues stemming from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues obtained monetary aid in improving facilities and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and fans.
"The notion that funds from concerts in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
He is among several artists to donate his award prize money to good deeds.
Back when the band received the prize in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer she split her award among a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed new equipment," the artist shared with the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the local youth club that developed their band, in addition to other local music groups.
And winners that year the group gave their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," said vocalist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted the lives of others."
Last week, the trust announced it had saved a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and the other in the city were bought under the community ownership scheme, which is funded by a national body and supporters who buy "shares" in the properties.
